UPDATE: I have implemented some new anti-spam tools and rehabilitated commenting. I'd appreciate it if you were to contact me at the first sign of trouble, like with Captcha (the 2 words you now have to type at the bottom of the comment form), for example. You may also be pleased to know that your efforts digitizing the "dancing letters" will not go to waste, because this specific implementation - named reCAPTCHA - uses your input to help digitize words in scanned books and other printed media that OCR can not decipher. For more information, click here.

22/03/2010: Unfortunately, comment spam has risen to unacceptable levels lately, forcing me to turn off the commenting option in this blog.If you'd still like to comment here as a visitor (members may always comment), please send me a message through the email form, and I'd be happy to post it for you.

It may take a while to get the hang of it, but once you do, geo-tagging is addictive.It only takes a compatible Nikon camera and a relatively cheap device to all of a sudden find yourself and your images totally Googlearthed. ¿Googlearthed? No way that word exists. Well maybe it didn’t, but now it does.

Figure this: you connect a GPS device to almost any* Nikon camera and - all of a sudden - the machine knows it's precise location on the planet, instantaneously. You may not always remember where you have been, but your Nikon surely does.

On april 21 last, Adobe released the Camera RAW plugin and DNG converter v.5.7, while they started this week shipping the new Creative Suite 5 with ACR v.6.0. Given the history of the Camera RAW plug-in and how it is tied-in to mayor CS releases, my guess is that ACR v.5.7 will be the last ACR update for CS4.People who's cameras are not supported in this version, will most likely have to upgrade to Creative Suite 5, the next versions of Lightroom, Photoshop Elements and/or Premiere Elements or look for other alternatives.PSE and PRE 8 are compatible with ACR up to this latest release, but I consider it extremely unlikely that ACR v.6.0 will support either them or Lightroom (2.x) in their current versions.

Many of you are probably aware that a devastating 8.8º magnitude earthquake hit Chile at 03:34:14 am on Saturday, February 27 last.What you’re probably not aware of is that I actually live there, and was still awake at the time to live a – hopefully – once in a lifetime event. Surely, few volunteers would step up to witness the fifth largest earthquake in recorded history...

Even though I told my friends that it feels more or less like being out on the open sea, trying to stay afoot in a small boat during a flying storm in the pitch dark, that does not quite do it.What makes it terrifying is the noise. The subterranean racket, the sound of a solid, armed-concrete house moving like a leaf in the wind, roof beams screeching against their foundations, tiles rattling; but most of all: things crashing down all around you…

Nikon WT-4 Setup Utility and Nikon Scan are not compatible with either OS 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard).Nikon recommends the use of a third party program, like Vuescan, to replace Nikon Scan on these operating systems.

Update: Adobe CEO Chuck Geschke on Adobe security issues with Flash, Acrobat, etc.: “Old News”. They're not only lazy, but stubborn too. And it all starts at the top...

From Wired Magazine's Epicenter.This is what Steve Jobs thinks about Adobe: They are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy; whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, the world is moving to HTML5.

On February 2, 2010, Nikon officially launched 7 new Coolpix cameras, with rumors about more news to come shortly.As P&S is not the main focus of this site, it suffices to say that the new cameras have resolutions from 10,4 to 14,5 Mp., an optical zoom range from 3,6 to 26x, while all include movie mode. 4 Models offer HD 720p and one – the P100 – Full HD 1080p.I will not go in-depth on these new models, with the exception of the P100, not only because it may be an interesting DSLR back-up, but also because it introduces us to a few exiting technologies, which – although not entirely new – appear for the first time in a Nikon camera. For more info on the other models, click here.